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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

Billy West

All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men’s voices, but they weren’t Everyman, it was them.
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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
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Flawed Perfect Thinking
I’m not angry. Everybody thinks I’m so angry because I have a point of view. They’re expecting me to just be all Smucker’s Jam.
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Expecting Point Thinking View
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
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Changing Character Different People Public
In a black-and-white world, back in the ’50s, were voices from another era.
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Another Black Different People Voice White World
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
It’s very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it’s only sonic.
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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery ’cause of the release you sign that says there’s always a very small percent chance that you’ll die during the operation.
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Causes Chance Littles Release Scared
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it.
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Cartoon Long People Popular

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